Dracula: The Impaler

Synopsis

Seven high-school friends begin their Euro-trip at the actual castle of Vlad the Impaler where he supposedly sold his soul to the devil over 500 years earlier, but the decrepit castle's past envelopes them in a bloody ritual.

Seven high-school friends begin their Euro-trip at the actual castle of Vlad the Impaler where he supposedly sold his soul to the devil over 500 years earlier, but the decrepit castle's past envelopes them in a bloody ritual.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ASouthernHorrorFan 2 / 10

My Review Of "Dracula The Impaler"

The story created in this "return to Gothic horror" is a decent enough
concept, but some of the more detailed portions of the story fell flat.
I never really felt a connection to the characters or the vision that
Hockenbrough was going for in "The Impaler". The story arc kept a
mediocre drama but there were no real thrills and the whole atmospheric
suspense was missing in this film. The characters were two dimensional
and sort-of cliché, even though, it is a major hang-up within the
genre, acceptable as long as the cast can sell it. Unfortunately the
cast never really convinced me of who they were in "The Impaler".

The special effects in this one try to pull off the blood and guts
nightmare but a few scenes failed to do so. The ones that did work
created a decent practical effect. The only real problem and major
irritation I have with "The Impaler" is that "if you are gonna make a
movie featuring Dracula then you bloody well better have Dracula in
your film!" Only two maybe three scenes even had the guy on screen.
Just a lot of folklore and fabrications that were incorrect and
blasphemous to the Dracula mythos, filled with inaccuracies about the
Dark Prince. I didn't really care for "The Impaler" , found the film's
inability to provide both horror or enough vampire in a film labeled
horror and about vampires.

Reviewed by iraz 5 / 10

It's what you will feel like doing after viewing this film!

I watched this film based on the External Reviews. I was hesitant but the reviews were all positive and I love GOOD horror films, but there are so many lousy ones made these days.

So, I gave it a shot and I now wonder if they saw the same film I did! There is hardly anything to examining the story of Vlad, just an opening scene that was pretty poor. The rest of the film is the same stuff you see in so many horror films these days - a group of college kids visiting Vlad's castle with the same cast of characters you always see. Several attractive women, make sure you have a blonde in the group! The acting is wooden and pathetic, the "horror" is laughable and it couldn't end fast enough. I am really upset that I was duped again, either the reviewers' expectations are low already from the many poor movies out there or, need I say or suggest what the other option is. I promise myself to NOT be taken again and all I can say is the old adage - "let the buyer beware"!!!!